The first principle of getting traffic to your website is to create content that people will want to visit. The more work you put into providing original, interesting, informative or entertaining content, the less work you will have to do in coaxing people to come look at it. When content is exceptional, visitors will stay longer, come back more often, browse other pages on your site and share links to your site on their own blogs and Web pages.
Instructions
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Offer good content on your website. The better each article, video or picture is, the more visitors will want to see more of what you offer, and the more likely they will be to share it with their friends. Proofread your work before publishing it and ask yourself if it is something you would want to share with others.
2Join online social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz. Post links to your articles on a regular basis.
3Write articles based on keywords. When visitors type words into a search engine, it is the sites most relevant to those words that are listed first. These are known as keywords, and are the basis of all search engine results. As you begin writing an article, consider which keyword combination your visitors may be looking for.
4Navigate to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool on a web browser. Type a word or two that describe your article, enter the human-recognizable letters in the text box provided, then click "Search." The tool will give you suggestions, with the number of monthly searches for each keyword combination, and a bar estimating the amount of competition there is from AdWords advertisers.
5Select a keyword combination from the list that describes your article. Whenever possible, choose a combination with medium to low competition, with the highest number of monthly searches.
6Use that keyword combination in the title of the Web page, headline of the article, and two other times in the body of your article.
7Add a link to at least one other article, on your own website whenever possible, to a page related to your keyword combination. Use that keyword combination as the clickable link. Never make the link based on words like "click here."
8Create at least two other pages on your website about the same, or a similar, topic. Add links on those pages to your first page using the keyword combination. If your title includes the keyword, use the title of the article as the clickable link.
